ROCHESTER — It was overtime of a tied game and Brent Phillips was thinking he was tired and he didn’t want to have to skate to the other end of the ice.

It wasn’t exactly a dream come true, but when a Dover clearing pass hit off a skate and came right to Phillips all alone in front of the net, it certainly wasn’t a bad thing. Phillips stuck the puck from the slot low far side for the game-winner 31 seconds into the extra session to lift the Spaulding High School hockey team past rival Dover, 3-2, Wednesday at a packed Rochester Ice Arena.

“I was wide open and the puck came right to me,” said a surprised Phillips. “I was dreading having to skate all the way down the other end, that’s for sure. I was a little tired.”

Instead, Phillips found his legs and nearly climbed the glass in front of the wild Spaulding student section.

Phillips’ goal, his second of the night, capped a big comeback for the Red Raiders (10-1-1) who fell behind 2-0 less than seven minutes into the game.

“(Dover) played with a ton of emotion and once they scored that first goal they could smell blood in the water I’m sure,” said Spaulding coach Paul George. “They amped it up and all we tried to do was handle the wave and let it subside a little bit.”

The Green Wave (7-3-1), who went 3-0 against Spaulding last year, scored at 1:45 and again at 6:46 on goals by Cam Crowley and Joe Johnston to take a 2-0 lead. It could have been more, but the Red Raiders successfully killed back-to-back minors late in the frame, and then hit a crossbar and a post in the final 90 seconds as they started to push back Dover’s early momentum.

“The third (goal) was big,” said Dover coach Steve Riker. “That’s exactly what I told our guys. After the first period, we need to get the third. We didn’t. … I was happy to have a lead there going into the third. We bent there, but didn’t break.”

Drew Pepin scored on the power play in the second period, a nifty shot from the high slot, to cut Dover’s lead to 2-1 and Phillips tied it up at 8:05 of the third from Justin Jewell and Zander Allen.

“I got left alone out front and Justin made a great pass and I just tucked it away,” Phillips said. “I was all alone, I never felt like I’ve had that much time.”

After a Red Raider turnover, Dover’s Robert Markusic had a short-handed breakaway, but Spaulding’s Jewell (two assists) caught him and broke down the breakaway.

Spaulding was on the power play for four of the final six minutes of regulation, but could not score. Dover was just fighting to keep the puck out of the net.